PostgreSQL connection reference
Learn about the fields used to create a PostgreSQL connection with ThoughtSpot DataFlow.
Here is a list of the fields for a PostgreSQL connection in ThoughtSpot DataFlow. You need specific information to establish a seamless and secure connection.
Connection properties
- Connection name
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Name your connection. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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PostgreSQLConnection
- Connection type
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Choose the PostgreSQL connection type. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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PostgreSQL
- Host
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Specify the hostname or the IP address of the PostgreSQL system. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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www.example.com
- Port
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Specify the port associated to the PostgreSQL system. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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1234
- User
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Specify the user id that will be used to connect to the PostgreSQL system. This user should have necessary privileges to access the data in the databases. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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userdi
- Password
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Specify the password for the User.
Mandatory field.
- Example:
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pswrd234%!
- Database
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Collection of information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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ditform
- Enter password/ Fetch password from vault
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Select whether to enter password or fetch and use the password you have stored in external vault providers (e.g AWS Secrets Manager). Mandatory field.
- Default:
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Enter password
- Vault provider
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Select the name of your external vault provider. Mandatory field.
- Default:
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AWS Secrets Manager
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” Requires Identity & Access Manager (IAM) role and DataFlow should be on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
- Secrets Manager Region
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Region of the AWS account where secret manager is defined. Mandatory field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.”
- Secret Name or ARN
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If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a fully qualified Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the secret. Mandatory field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” Use Secret Name or ARN for assuming role from different account. Requires ARN for secret name field.
- Remote role ARN
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If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a remote role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) where secret manager is not defined. Optional field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.”
- Key name in secret
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Key name given for the secret, to get its value. Mandatory field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.”
- JDBC options
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Specify the options associated with the JDBC URL.
Optional field.
- Example:
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jdbc:sqlserver://[serverName[\instanceName][:portNumber]] - Other notes:
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Advanced configuration.
Sync properties
- Data extraction mode
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Specify the extraction type. Optional field.
- Example:
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JDBC
- Valid Values:
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JDBC,PSQL
- Default:
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JDBC
- Column delimiter
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Specify the column delimiter character. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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1
- Valid Values:
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Any printable ASCII character or decimal value for ASCII character
- Default:
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1
- Null value
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Specifies the string literal that should indicate the null value in the extracted data. During the data load the column value matching this string will be loaded as null in the target. Optional field.
- Example:
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NULL
- Valid Values:
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Any string literal
- Default:
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NULL
- Enclosing character
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Specify if the text columns in the source data needs to be enclosed in quotes. Optional field.
- Example:
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DOUBLE
- Valid Values:
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SINGLE, DOUBLE
- Default:
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DOUBLE
- Other notes:
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This is required if the text data has newline character or delimiter character.
- Escape character
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Specify the escape character if using a text qualifier in the source data. Optional field.
- Example:
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\"
- Valid Values:
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Any ASCII character
- Default:
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\"
- Max ignored rows
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Abort the transaction after encountering 'n' ignored rows. Optional field.
- Example:
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0 - Valid Values:
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Any numeric value
- Default:
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0
- tsload options
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Specifies the parameters passed with the
tsloadcommand, in addition to the commands already included by the application. The format for these parameters is:<param_1_name> = <param_1_value>- Example:
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date_time_format = %Y-%m-%d date_format = %Y-%m-%d;time_format = %H:%M:%S - Valid Values:
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null_value = NULL max_ignored_rows = 0 - Default:
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max_ignored_rows = 0
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